2010-11-22T17:18:26ZFluxBBhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=74740B15HOP, this thread was marked solved by the topicstarter more than a year ago. If the proposed solutions don't work for you, start a new thread and link to this one instead.

Since none of that works for me... I don't think this is really solved.

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=30052010-11-19T01:45:21Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=854954#p854954I use the automatic install option. So I didn't decide any.

Birger

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=205552009-11-12T20:22:33Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=654849#p654849Not sure what you mean, if you formatted the disk and did not leave any space at the start (or in a flagged partition) then yes you do.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=181902009-11-12T20:05:49Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=654841#p654841So if I use VMware, I need to use parted to alter the disk?

Birger

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=205552009-11-12T18:39:47Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=654793#p654793Wow, I totally missed this reply before. Thanks, I had a feeling that might be the problem and was hoping to avoid a reformat.]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=181902009-07-15T22:57:59Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=585240#p585240The newer releases of GRUB2 need a special partition to store the core.img (this is the kernel image of grub + necessary modules for reading your filesystem). Former releases used the so called 62 block gap between the mbr (block 1) an the first partition block 63. Since newer system might use the newer and better gpt labeling instead of the old mbr labeling (aka msdos disk label) Grub stores its data in this special partition.

Usually this partition should be the first one an it should be flaged with the bios_grub flag. (parted 1 set bios_grub on)unfortunately arch linux doesn't ship parted with bios_grub flag support. (But support can be found if you built parted from git ... as far as i know there is no such PKGBUILD in AUR, so you are alone)

]]>https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=271452009-07-08T18:41:57Zhttps://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=581760#p581760Last night I decide to try out GRUB2.

Of course when I tried to install I got this message:

Embedding area is not present at all!

After some quick searching it looks like that error message has been replaced with these: